Relative location: South of Mongolia Northeast of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar. Absolute location: 39 degrees, 55' North, and 116 degrees, 20' East Distance and direction from Lancaster: 7,215 miles east
Size and comparative size to other countries in your region: China is the largest Asian country in relative size and population not including Russia in size. Climate: China has a climate that goes from on extreme dry seasons to the other wet monsoons, which leads to clear temperature differences in winter and summer. In winter, northern winds. China climates differ from region to region how big and diverse the country is and how large of an area it covers. In the central part of China, there are four distinctive seasons. In northeast China, summers are short but have lots of sunshine; the winter is long and cold. In southwest China of low latitudes, have characteristically vertical seasonal zones. Major physical features:Major Mountain Everest, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas. China's physical characteristics mainly comprise of plateaus and mountains that are lower in the east. Rivers: the Yangtze, Huang He, Amur, Pearl, Mekong and the Brahmaputra. The Great Wall of China. Four major plateaus Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Inner Mongolia Plateau, The Loess Plateau, Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.Major cultural characteristics: During the Shang Dynasty, a scholar thought that chinese food should include flavors such as sweet, sour, bitter, piquant and salty. The clothes that were more traditional were the Pien-fu which is a two-piece costume, which includes a tunic-like top that reaches the knee and an ankle-length skirt. The Ch’ang-p’ao is a long robe while the Shen-I is a combination of pien-fu and Ch’ang-p’ao. It is a tunic and a skirt sewn together to form a long robe. All the traditional Chinese garments have minimum stitches. Embroidered edgings, draped silks, decorative bands and embellishments on shoulders and wide sashes are used as ornamentation. As a part of the Chinese culture all traditional Chinese clothes are dark in color. Dark colors are preferred to the light ones
Major Cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Type of government: Communist State Head of State: Hu Jintao Global organization: UN, UN Security Flag:the colors are Red with Yellow stars the color red represents revolution, while the stars symbolize the four social classes - the working class, the peasantry, the urban petty bourgeoisie, and the national bourgeoisie
Population: 1,331,460,000 Population Density: Age Distribution: 0-14 years: 17.6% (male 126,634,384/female 108,463,142) 15-64 years: 73.6% (male 505,326,577/female 477,953,883) 65 years and over: 8.9% (male 56,823,028/female 61,517,001) Natural Rate of Increase:
Economic Information
Currency and exchange rate: one US. Dollar equals about seven Chinese Yuan or 6.4918 Natural Resources: coal, iron ore, petroleum, natural gas, mercury, tin, tungsten, antimony, manganese, molybdenum, vanadium, magnetite, aluminum, lead, zinc, rare earth elements, uranium, hydropower potential (world's largest)
Agricultural products are: rice, wheat, potatoes, corn, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, apples, cotton, oilseed; pork; fish dairy products, sea food, fruit, juices vegetables, spices, tea and sugars. Industries include mining and ore processing, iron, steel, aluminum, and other metals, coal; machine building; armaments; textiles and apparel; petroleum; cement; chemicals; fertilizers; consumer products, including footwear, toys, and electronics; food processing; transportation equipment, including automobiles, rail cars and locomotives, ships, and aircraft; telecommunications equipment, commercial space launch vehicles, satellites
Import and Export
Commodities
Exports Partners
US 20.03%, Hong Kong 12.03%, Japan 8.32%, South Korea 4.55%, Germany 4.27%
electrical and other machinery, including data processing equipment, apparel, textiles, iron and steel, optical and medical equipment
Imports Partners
Japan 12.27%, Hong Kong 10.06%, South Korea 9.04%, US 7.66%, Taiwan 6.84%, Germany 5.54%
electrical and other machinery, oil and mineral fuels, optical and medical equipment, metal ores, plastics, organic chemicals
The GDP is $9.872 trillion, the GDP per Capita is $7,400 for China. The HDI and the HDI ranking in the world is the 89th in the world. The unemployment rate is approximately 4.3% of the population.
Population Information
Current Population 1,336,718,015 Population Density Shanghai 16.575 million; BEIJING (capital) 12.214 million; Chongqing 9.401 million; Shenzhen 9.005 million; Guangzhou 8.884 million
Age Distribution
0-14 years:
male 126,634,384
female 108,463,142
15-64 years:
male 505,326,577
female 477,953,883
65 years and over:
male 56,823,028
female 61,517,001
The pie graph corresponds to the chart on age distribution in China
Natural Rate of Increase (NRI) 0.493% It Will Take China about years to double in size Literacy Rate 91.6% Infant Mortality Rate 16.06 deaths/1,000 live births Life Expectancy at age one 74.68 years Physical Quality of Life Index 64.29732 Ethnic Groups Han Chinese 91.5%, Zhuang, Manchu, Hui, Miao, Uighur, Tujia, Yi, Mongol, Tibetan, Buyi, Dong, Yao, Korean, and other nationalities 8.5% Main/ Chief Religions Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Christian 3%-4%, Muslim 1%-2% Main Languages Standard Chinese or Mandarin (Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages (see Ethnic groups entry) note: Mongolian is official in Nei Mongol, Uighur is official in Xinjiang Uygur, and Tibetan is official in Xizang (Tibet)
Human Rights Information
One of the major human rights violations is the trafficking and kidnapping of people in china. Men are being forced into labor camps to work for little to no money or benefits. Women are sold to be wives for men or sexual exploitation in other countries as prostitutes. Children are also kidnapped and sold as slaves or worse. it is still and ongoing problem in china today and they have faced much in the way of protesting backlash for it as well. China is now on the tier two watch lists because of the violations of its people. They also have problems with local government corruption too. Most of the people affected are women and children but men are common as well for working. They usually come from the borders of china. Women and children usually come from Mongolia North KoreaBurma, Russia, and Vietnam.Most others like men and teenage boys come from Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, and Japan. If the government catches the people they are most likely sent back to North Korea to face even more hardship there.
Environmental Information
Major Environment issues include air pollution (greenhouse gases, sulfur dioxide particulates) from reliance on coal produces acid rain. There are also water shortages, particularly in the north. The water pollution from untreated wastes in the south is also a big problem too. As well as deforestation an estimated loss of one-fifth of agricultural land since 1949 to soil erosion and economic development; desertification; trade in endangered species.
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Political Information
Relative location: South of Mongolia Northeast of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar.Absolute location: 39 degrees, 55' North, and 116 degrees, 20' East
Distance and direction from Lancaster: 7,215 miles east
Climate: China has a climate that goes from on extreme dry seasons to the other wet monsoons, which leads to clear temperature differences in winter and summer. In winter, northern winds. China climates differ from region to region how big and diverse the country is and how large of an area it covers. In the central part of China, there are four distinctive seasons. In northeast China, summers are short but have lots of sunshine; the winter is long and cold. In southwest China of low latitudes, have characteristically vertical seasonal zones.
Major physical features: Major Mountain Everest, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas. China's physical characteristics mainly comprise of plateaus and mountains that are lower in the east. Rivers: the Yangtze, Huang He, Amur, Pearl, Mekong and the Brahmaputra. The Great Wall of China. Four major plateaus Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Inner Mongolia Plateau, The Loess Plateau, Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.Major cultural characteristics: During the Shang Dynasty, a scholar thought that chinese food should include flavors such as sweet, sour, bitter, piquant and salty. The clothes that were more traditional were the Pien-fu which is a two-piece costume, which includes a tunic-like top that reaches the knee and an ankle-length skirt. The Ch’ang-p’ao is a long robe while the Shen-I is a combination of pien-fu and Ch’ang-p’ao. It is a tunic and a skirt sewn together to form a long robe. All the traditional Chinese garments have minimum stitches. Embroidered edgings, draped silks, decorative bands and embellishments on shoulders and wide sashes are used as ornamentation. As a part of the Chinese culture all traditional Chinese clothes are dark in color. Dark colors are preferred to the light ones
Major Cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong,
Type of government: Communist State
Head of State: Hu Jintao
Global organization: UN, UN Security
the color red represents revolution, while the stars symbolize the four social classes - the working class, the peasantry, the urban petty bourgeoisie, and the national bourgeoisie
Population: 1,331,460,000
Population Density:
Age Distribution: 0-14 years: 17.6% (male 126,634,384/female 108,463,142)
15-64 years: 73.6% (male 505,326,577/female 477,953,883)
65 years and over: 8.9% (male 56,823,028/female 61,517,001)
Natural Rate of Increase:
Economic Information
Currency and exchange rate: one US. Dollar equals about seven Chinese Yuan or 6.4918Natural Resources: coal, iron ore, petroleum, natural gas, mercury, tin, tungsten, antimony, manganese, molybdenum, vanadium, magnetite, aluminum, lead, zinc, rare earth elements, uranium, hydropower potential (world's largest)
Agricultural products are: rice, wheat, potatoes, corn, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, apples, cotton, oilseed; pork; fish dairy products, sea food, fruit, juices vegetables, spices, tea and sugars.
Industries include mining and ore processing, iron, steel, aluminum, and other metals, coal; machine building; armaments; textiles and apparel; petroleum; cement; chemicals; fertilizers; consumer products, including footwear, toys, and electronics; food processing; transportation equipment, including automobiles, rail cars and locomotives, ships, and aircraft; telecommunications equipment, commercial space launch vehicles, satellites
The GDP is $9.872 trillion, the GDP per Capita is $7,400 for China. The HDI and the HDI ranking in the world is the 89th in the world. The unemployment rate is approximately 4.3% of the population.
Population Information
Current Population 1,336,718,015Population Density Shanghai 16.575 million; BEIJING (capital) 12.214 million; Chongqing 9.401 million; Shenzhen 9.005 million; Guangzhou 8.884 million
Natural Rate of Increase (NRI) 0.493%
It Will Take China about years to double in size
Literacy Rate 91.6%
Infant Mortality Rate 16.06 deaths/1,000 live births
Life Expectancy at age one 74.68 years
Physical Quality of Life Index 64.29732
Ethnic Groups Han Chinese 91.5%, Zhuang, Manchu, Hui, Miao, Uighur, Tujia, Yi, Mongol, Tibetan, Buyi, Dong, Yao, Korean, and other nationalities 8.5%
Main/ Chief Religions Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Christian 3%-4%, Muslim 1%-2%
Main Languages Standard Chinese or Mandarin (Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages (see Ethnic groups entry)
note: Mongolian is official in Nei Mongol, Uighur is official in Xinjiang Uygur, and Tibetan is official in Xizang (Tibet)
Human Rights Information
One of the major human rights violations is the trafficking and kidnapping of people in china. Men are being forced into labor camps to work for little to no money or benefits. Women are sold to be wives for men or sexual exploitation in other countries as prostitutes. Children are also kidnapped and sold as slaves or worse. it is still and ongoing problem in china today and they have faced much in the way of protesting backlash for it as well. China is now on the tier two watch lists because of the violations of its people. They also have problems with local government corruption too.Most of the people affected are women and children but men are common as well for working. They usually come from the borders of china. Women and children usually come from Mongolia North KoreaBurma, Russia, and Vietnam.Most others like men and teenage boys come from Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, and Japan. If the government catches the people they are most likely sent back to North Korea to face even more hardship there.
Environmental Information
Major Environment issues include air pollution (greenhouse gases, sulfur dioxide particulates) from reliance on coal produces acid rain. There are also water shortages, particularly in the north. The water pollution from untreated wastes in the south is also a big problem too. As well as deforestation an estimated loss of one-fifth of agricultural land since 1949 to soil erosion and economic development; desertification; trade in endangered species.The Choice
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